John Pfeiffer
Engineering Director at Helix
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorJohn Pfeiffer is a seasoned software engineering leader in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience delivering scalable cloud applications. He is Engineering Director at Helix since 2022, steering Go and Python microservices on AWS with Docker, focused on reliability, performance, and developer velocity. His career spans leadership roles at Helix, Atlassian, and Oxygen Cloud, where he built and guided high-performing teams through complex platform initiatives. At Atlassian, he helped grow HipChat Server into a multi-million-dollar business and led the 2.0 release, highlighting his balance of product focus and engineering excellence. Grounded by people-centric leadership and a practical engineering mindset, he turns ambitious goals into robust, scalable systems while mentoring engineers to grow.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
continuous-integration8
aws8
testing8
lambda7
aws-lambda7
python7
maven6
serverless6
developer-tools6
confirm6
phantomjs6
optimization6
serverless-framework6
windows6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
johnpfeiffer/stringsmoar
Mar 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
johnpfeiffer/source.johnpfeiffer.github.io
Jan 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 402 pushes, 14 branches in 9 years 11 months
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